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The Editor Speaks: Death by falling

Could the two persons who have fallen from two buildings recently here been prevented from doing so? The first question to be asked is did they fall on purpose? We have had two recent incidents in Cayman. The first one…

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The Editor Speaks: Spammers

iNews Cayman has been continually and is still being hit by spammers. They seem nearly always to attack us on a Saturday evening between 6:30pm and 8:00pm. This has been going on for nearly twelve months when the spammers at…

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The Editor Speaks: Bush recruitment service and…….

Bush recruitment service and board members engaged in unethical practices It shows just how much ex premier McKeeva Bush thought his power was absolute. He even recruited workers to be employed by government. Not that they did anything. This was…

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The Editor Speaks: Well done Mr. Archer!

Hon. Marco Archer, Minister for Finance, outlined the first spending plans of government on Wednesday (26) morning when he asked the Legislative Assembly to approve an appropriations bill for $193.4M. This will allow government, he said, to function from 1st…

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The Editor Speaks: Agree to disagree

I agree that the two articles, one from Bloomberg and the other (that quoted the Bloomberg article) from Royal Gazette are riddled with errors – see iNews story today “Cayman Islands: Bermuda press makes hay quoting error-riddled Bloomberg article”. It…

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The Editor Speaks: John Kemp on Tempura

I didn’t think I would be writing another Editorial on Tempura but my attention was alerted by one of my readers to a Viewpoint that appeared on CNS. You can, if you haven’t already, read the whole thing at: https://caymannewsservice.com/viewpoint/2013/06/21/operation-tempura#comment-296876…

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The Editor Speaks: When was it decided we needed an accountant?

It was certainly a surprise for me to receive the news Cayman was to get a FEMALE governor.  Not that there is anything wrong with a female governor. It never entered my head we were going to get one. After…

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The Editor Speaks: Taylor’s Tempura struggles

iNews Cayman has given more time to the scandal of Operation Tempura including Editorials on the topic than anything else we have published. What is even more astonishing is that Tempura commenced in 2007 and iNews did not publish until…

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The Editor Speaks: Immigration making headlines again

Cayman Islands’ looming immigration problem has made headlines again. The Bloomberg story we ran last week under the title “Paradise Lost” is the subject of an article in Bermuda’s Royal Gazette we have published today, “Cayman Islands could eject 2,000…

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The Editor Speaks: Disappointing and why now?

It is most disappointing to have to report that a last minute challenge to the election of Minister Tara Rivers has been filed in the Grand Court by Mr. Gordon Hewitt, husband of Mrs. Velma Hewitt, a candidate in the…